1 $GRT let me show you a lil something that I think is cool and tell you why I unironically call $GRT #GRT my retirement plan. Let's walk, let's talk...

2 From the very beginning, I knew there was something very special about this project. Admittedly, I could barely comprehend about 80% of what it was and how it operated, but my instincts kept telling me that it was going to be big one day.

3 So obviously, I aped in on day (2?) at .22 not really knowing what I was getting into at the time but I saw price go up and dollar signs.

4 Being the idiot that I am, I secured some profits but mad some bad buys and sells through the peak and the dip, eventually being left with a very large bag of 44 cent GRT.

5 Now, I'm stubborn as hell and maybe it's just me not wanting to admit that I ever make bad trades, but I will hold on to a bag until I make a profit or that MFer goes to zero.

6 Needless to say, I was stuck for a while. Even when it rebounded shortly I somehow messed that trade up also. (I've since refined my crypto investing skills greatly and number now only go up)

7 So, sitting there with a bag of a token representing some technical mumbo jumbo project about off-chain this and decentralized that, Google of blockchain woooOoOoo how grandiose! Yeah right! Then I started doing some reading and watching some videos.

8 It wasn't very long before I educated myself and actually became intrigued at what the @graphprotocol had set out to do. The groundwork they'd already laid out was VERY impressive. Their vision was awe inspiring. And many a geek attested that it was indeed very exciting.

9 So, armed with the newfound knowledge that I was indeed sitting on a golden egg, or even the goose perhaps, I sat back and simply waited for my bags of GRT to flow over with riches. Jewels, gold, silver, tether. And I waited. And waited. Then waited.

10 Eventually I became a stark raving mad cheerleader, wondering what the hell was wrong with everyone and how is it possible that not every person with a smidgeon of common sense wasn't throwing their life savings at this project?? And the price, why wouldn't it go up???

11 I educated myself further. I downloaded Bookmap. I learned how to read it and what the numbers meant. Where walls of support and resistance were. What rug pulling was. What an algo does. (fuck you algo) Just, a lot. I was admittedly very ignorant at the start of this journey.

12 Along the way I began investing in other #altcoins, making some money here, losing some money there. Never really turning much of a profit and always left wondering why. At the end of each day though, I still had my GRT. My crypto security blanket. My biggest, proudest bag.

13 Over time, I stopped worrying about how big The Graph Protocol would become. I just knew it would. People would figure it out eventually. I even became secure enough to delegate 90% of my tokens (very smart move on my part)

14 Not really understanding the process but having a certain degree of familiarity with APY and compounding interest, coupled with the fact that undelegating process freezes my GRT for 28 days, preventing me from making any sleep-deprived knee-jerk trades that I'll regret later,

15 it turned out to be a good move on my part. Down the road, the AMAZING folks over at @Ryabinaio continued to de-mystify the delegation process even made this very handy website with a lot of valuable indexer information - https://graphscan.io/  - please give them a follow!

16 Now looking at the indexer I'm currently delegated to, I am averaging an APY of 13.63%, or 3.7 GRT per day for every 10,000 delegated. Those are rewarded periodically as the epochs rotate through their different stages and they stack, in turn earning additional GRT.

17 I started thinking about what that meant long term so I pulled up an APY calculator for fun and started crunching on some numbers. Let's say I started with 10,000 GRT and simply delegated for 10 years. How many would I end up with? 39,068. So I would have quadrupled my GRT.

18 That's just if I just let it sit there. Not re-investing. Not accumulating. Just ... sit there. Then I realized.. wait a minute, query fees aren't being charged yet. Logically, shouldn't I make double the APY when they kick in? This is unconfirmed how it will affect the APY...

19 ...but let's plug that in anyway. So 10,000 GRT, earning 27.26% over a period of ten years. That comes out to a grand total of 152,559 GRT. WOW, now we're talking. Now remember, this is GRT, not dollars. So, I started thinking about what GRT might be worth in 10 years.

20 This is where the thought experiment gets REALLY fun! Let's just say it peaks at 3 and never really goes above that. $457,677 in 10 years, not bad! OH, it's worth $10 by then easy, you say? A cool $1,525,559. Yes, you read that right. Starting with a measly 10,000 GRT.

21 So anyway, of course there are best case scenarios and worst case scenarios. A lot could change between now and 2031, of course. But dream a little bit and just imagine how big and widespread this thing can get. Shit, how big it already is. How many platforms it already...

22 supports. Huge, integral projects that are the bedrock of the crypto community. GRT is quickly becoming the glue that's going to hold it all together and make decentralization and web3 our new reality. How it could VERY WELL BE the big daddy, shit you not GOOGLE of blockchain.

23 So have fun. Play with the numbers. Let your imagination go wild. Enjoy the ride, the highs, the lows. Do what you will and I hope that it's prosperous. We're still at the infancy of all of this, meandering through the dark. Some of us have torches but no spotlights yet.

24 Best of luck to everyone and trade safe, trade smart. Mitigate risk. Thanks for taking time to read and much love to you $GRT fam!! (especially my OG's y'all know what's up)

https://thegraph.com/